How To Install Wine 1.5 Using PPA On Ubuntu 13.04

Here is a guide to install Wine 1.5 on Ubuntu 13.04. You can install Wine by adding the Ubuntu Wine Team to your system.

Wine is a free and open source software application that aims to allow applications designed for Microsoft Windows to run on Unix-like operating systems. Wine also provides a software library, known as Winelib, against which developers can compile Windows applications to help port them to Unix-like systems.

Wine is a compatibility layer. It duplicates functions of Windows by providing alternative implementations of the DLLs that Windows programs call, and a process to substitute for the Windows NT kernel. This method of duplication differs from other methods that might also be considered emulation, where Windows programs run in a virtual machine. Wine is predominantly written using black-box testing reverse-engineering, to avoid copyright issues.

To add the PPA and install Wine 1.5 open a terminal window (press Ctrl+Alt+T) and copy+paste the following lines: